Senior .NET Backend Architect & Tech Leader

Rac Motoring Services; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Share scheme

Hybrid/Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Wellbeing support

Employee discounts

Job summary

RAC is seeking a Senior Backend .NET Software Engineer to lead within our Breakdown team from the Bristol office, with hybrid and flexible working patterns. You will drive engineering best practices, influence architecture, mentor engineers and deliver scalable backend services using .NET Core, C#, SQL and Azure.

You’ll shape the tech roadmap, own technical debt, and collaborate with product teams to ship robust, customer-focused solutions at scale, contributing to our digital estate and

Qualifications

• Experience leading backend teams and setting technical direction.
• Strong knowledge of .NET Core, C#, and cloud-native architectures.
• Ability to mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key technical leader in your product team, driving engineering best practice, problem-solving, and practical technical decision-making.
• Design and deliver robust backend architecture and high-quality software using .NET Core, C#, SQL, and cloud-native services in Azure.
• Contribute to technical design, future-state architecture and long-term technology strategy across the wider RAC Digital ecosystem.
• Lead engineering initiatives, improve delivery lifecycle processes, and champion automation, quality and continuous improvement.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, Kubernetes, DevOps tooling and scalable cloud patterns.
• Provide coaching and technical mentoring across squads—supporting engineers of all levels to elevate capability and standards.
• Collaborate with Product and other technical functions to shape requirements, clarify complex problems and deliver practical, customer-focused solutions.
• Own and manage technical debt, ensuring intelligent prioritisation and long-term maintainability.
• Support recruitment, onboarding and the development of engineering talent across the team.
• Bring curiosity and innovation—staying ahead of emerging technologies and identifying new opportunities to enhance our digital estate.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Agile

Architectural design

Problem solving

Cloud Azure

CI/CD

Kubernetes

NET Core

C#

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Azure

SQL

APIs

Job description

RAC is seeking a Senior Backend .NET Software Engineer to lead within our Breakdown team from the Bristol office, with hybrid and flexible working patterns. You will drive engineering best practices, influence architecture, mentor engineers and deliver scalable backend services using .NET Core, C#, SQL and Azure.

You’ll shape the tech roadmap, own technical debt, and collaborate with product teams to ship robust, customer-focused solutions at scale, contributing to our digital estate and